A former Chesterfield Township man who charmed $1.4 million out of four elderly people remained quiet as he was escorted from court to spend at least 45 months in prison.

Brian Marsack, 44, was sentenced to three years and eight months to 20 years in prison for stealing the life savings of Edward Mancini, 92, and his late wife, Joan, and his 88-year-old sister and 78-year-old sister-in-law from 2007 to 2011.

Mancini said he expected some kind of comment from the man who he has known for many years and stole $400,000 from him.

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“I expected he would probably break down and acted for sympathy from me, but he showed no remorse,” Mancini said after the sentencing in Macomb County Circuit Court.

Mancini’s daughter, Sandra Boone, who with her dad discovered the thievery, said she thought Marsack may apologize.

“I was wondering if he would’ve broke down or said something like he was sorry,” she said. “But he didn’t. And his wife did not apologize or find any sympathy either. I feel the whole family is not really feeling remorse at all.

“It makes you feel somewhat bad. You like to think if somebody did wrong, you like to think better of people. We are taught in Christian faith if we do something wrong we need to apologize to the victims. But unfortunately they don’t feel the same type of belief.”

Marsack had known Mancini since he was a boy and Marsack’s family rented a 23 Mile Road home from Mancini. In 2007, Marsack began representing himself as a Goldman Sachs stockbroker and affiliated with the Royal Bank of Canada. He boasted outrageous returns, up to 48 percent, by creating fake documents. He pilfered much of the money by gaining the trust of Joan Mancini. Marsack portrayed himself as honest, sincere and Christian, Mancini and Boone said.

“Marsack was slick by calling me, ‘grandpa,’ and writing me letters telling me how much he respected me, helping my daughter who is handicapped,” Mancini told Viviano in court. “Brian was a predator, and we were the victims.”

Joan Mancini’s death in September 2011 led to the scheme’s discovery.

Marsack has claimed he simply lost the money through day-trading. But Mancini believes he conducted a Ponzi scheme.

Assistant Macomb prosecutor Suzanne Faunce, head of the vulnerable adult unit, said a probe by Plante and Moran accounting firm could not refute the day-trading claim.

“We can only guess. Money is going out in large sums of cash,” she said. “We don’t know where it’s going. Even Plante and Moran told us, ‘We can’t tell you exactly where the money is going.’ They can only gather a guess.

“A lot of the money went to support his family. There was living expenses.”

Marsack lived with his wife and four children on Grayson Street, near 24 Mile Road and Interstate-94. The 2,521-square-foot home went into foreclosure.

Marsack’s wife attended the sentencing.

Marsack pleaded no contest to three counts of embezzlement over $100,000 under a deal with the judge to sentencing at the bottom of the sentencing guideline range, which was three years and eight months; the top was six years and three months. Viviano could have changed his mind, but then Marsack could have withdrawn his plea.

Mancini said he wasn’t pleased with the sentence because of Marsack’s apparent lack of remorse and his belief Marsack will never be able to pay restitution because it will be difficult to get a job.

“Marsack deserves the maximum sentence,” Mancini said. “Marsack has destroyed three people’s lives. He stole the savings that can never be recouped. … He stole not only money but financial and physical independence. He stole our ability to feel useful and help those in need. And he stole my trust.”

“Marsack has no remorse. He never apologized or even tried to repay the money he stole from us.”

Viviano said he wanted to punish Marsack but also give him a chance to rehabilitate and start repaying the money upon release.

“I’m trying to put him in prison long enough ... (so) that when he comes out he still will know the purpose of prison was to punish from a wrongdoing and to deter him from that activity,” Viviano said. “When he comes out of jail, as a condition of his parole, he has to begin paying restitution.”